Attheotherextremeis
the nuclearreactor.Lketheproverbialiceberg,thescientificcommunityseesonlyits'tip'!EvencatastrophesliketheonethathitFukushimainJapan,
fail to liftthecloakoffthis
much touted 'invincibility'.

Recentlyasectionofthemedia reported, “nine people including three employees working at the
Kalpakkam atomic reactor, about 70km from Chennai, died of multiple
myeloma and bone cancer between 1995 and 2011.” The report added,
“as many as 244 employees in Kalpakkam and their dependants were
detected with various types of cancer between 1999 and 2009.”

Initially,theauthorities
tried to play the usual game of sweepingfactsunderacarpetof
conjectures
(Click here for a typical reaction on Jaitapur). They said, “the
average rate of incidence of cancer among NPCIL employees was 54.05
per lakh while the national rate was 98.5 per per lakh of population.
The average death rate due to cancer among NPCIL employees was 29.05
per lakh while that of the general public was 68 per lakh of
population.” Another statement added that the incidenceofcancerinNorthEasternIndiawheretherewerenonuclearplantswashigherthanintheareaswheretherewereatomicreactors.

Amazing!
What are they trying to tell - thatthesafesthide-outfromCancer
lies inthevicinityofanuclearreactor?

Jacques Cousteau, scientist and inventor once said:

A
common denominator in every single nuclear accident is that the
specialists rush to the media saying, 'There's no danger to the
public.' They do this before they themselves know what has happened
because they are terrified that the public might react...

"The power of the
atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking. We
thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."